While i believe there is nothing wrong with having some parts in songs which have a "groove", so to speak, bands who center themselves around this concept are more often than not rock bands masquerading as metal.

Trauco

The problem about catchiness is it gets to our imagination, making us think that we actually like the music for a split second before we catch ourselves.

I've been there so many times....not with mainstream "metal", but with the "true UG bands" who try to sell their content-less crap by recycling known formulas, appealing to nostalgia.

We cannot talk about catchiness per se in this case, but the principle is similar: the use (and abuse) of aesthetic elements which have been previously proven right by superior bands, aesthetics that appeal to a certain market, the underground scene in this case. Nocturnal Graves, anyone?

We cannot talk about catchiness per se in this case, but the principle is similar: the use (and abuse) of aesthetic elements which have been previously proven right by superior bands, aesthetics that appeal to a certain market, the underground scene in this case. Nocturnal Graves, anyone?

So we're caught between hipsters (poseur faux artists) and mass taste morons, with only a few people who "get it."

Sounds like cause for secession. Nietzsche urges you to create the ueberHessian.